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Pressing on to The End
My last post was very valuable to me. I have sorted out all the issues with the manuscript, and am now pressing on to the end. I had to cut about 3000 words of redundant and irrelevant scenes, but once...
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Devising a Mathematical Formula for Time Travel
So my husband forwarded me a funny: It took me a moment to get it, but when I did, I just knew that I had to work out a time-travel formula for East of Yesterday. I broke out my calculator, and got to...
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Could I Be Finished and Just Didn’t Know It?
I was thinking about how to do this final confrontation at the end of my book when I thought of a plot twist that I loved. But I realized that if I used this plot twist, I would have to spend another...
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I’m Back! And Fun with Names
Wow. My last post was on Thanksgiving. I didn’t mean to take a hiatus, but I guess I did. Tomorrow I go back to work, so I guess life will turn back to normal. Which should mean fairly regular posts...
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East of Yesterday Complete!
Exciting news! I have finally finish drafting East of Yesterday! Here’s some quick stats: Genre – Time Travel Historical with light science fiction elements Length – 111,000 words Point-of-View – Third...
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Revising East of Yesterday – Plus Stuff
Here is a cool drugstore pic from the 1920s. Whenever I blog about East of Yesterday, I’m going to try to find a cool old picture to go with it, to get you in the mood. Click to enbiggen. Shorpy has...
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Recent Research – 80s Jewelry and Old Highways
At left are a pair of earrings from the 80s. I remember these, but I never wore any, myself. I tried pierced ears when I was thirteen, but I always had ear-aches and I eventually decided it wasn’t...
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Eight Things I Edited For. So far.
Over the last few weeks, I have been going back and forth over my manuscript, tightening up the language. Here are the things that I can recall looking for in particular: Adverbs. This is always the...
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Ready to Query East of Yesterday. Almost.
I started a blog post called “Ready to Synopsize East of Yesterday” but I never finished the post and now I am finished with both the synopsis and the query. Part of the reason I made so many changes...
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On to the Next Project
Click to enlarge. From LOC: Highway intersection near Belle Glade, Florida. Negro bean pickers hitchhiking. URL: http://www.loc.gov/item/fsa1997008184/PP/#about-this-item So I officially finished East...
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Plotting a New Novel
June has been crazy, with a series of ups and downs, along with a lot of changes. This week, I started a new job. Things are starting to settle down now, hence this blog post. Normally, I don’t plot...
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